KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Embarking on a series of visits to provinces, Electoral Reform Commission chief Shah Sultan Akefi on Sunday said people’s views and suggestions were crucial to fixing the system.

KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): One policeman was killed and another injured after policemen turned on each other and clashed in the capital of southern Kandahar province, an official said on Saturday. The security official, who spoke on the condition of...

KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Intelligence officials busted a seven-member gang allegedly involved in target killings during a raid in the capital of southern Kandahar province, an official said on Thursday.

KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Farmers and gardeners from several districts of southern Kandahar province are worried water shortages could leave their crops parched. While some of the towns are going without water, others are faced with an acute scarcity of the resource.

KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): An advisory mini-jirga involving university teachers, civil society activists and media representatives has been formed to voluntarily work with the education department to improve teaching standards in southern Kandahar...

KANDAHAR (Pajhwok): At least $ 25 million has been allotted for development and reconstruction projects in southern Kandahar, officials of Ministry of Rural Reconstruction and Development (RRD) and National Solidarity Program (NPS) have said on Sunday.

KANDAHAR/PUL-I-ALAM (Pajhwok): Two police officers have been killed and another two policemen injured during two separate gun attacks in southern Kandahar and central Logar provinces, officials said on Thursday.

KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Women have the ability to stop their male family members from going to the war if their awareness is increased, peace negotiators in southern Kandahar province believe. Jamila Yousafi, the provincial peace committee...

KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Afghan security forces were all set to launch a six-month joint military operation code named “Zaffar” to ensure government writ and flush out militants from southern provinces of the country, security officials said on Thursday.

KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Water and Energy Minister Ali Ahmad Osmani on Tuesday said the electricity problem in southern Kandahar province could not be addressed without cooperation from the private sector.

KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): The central bank official, who stole 76 million afghanis from the bank’s Spin Boldak branch in southern Kandahar province and fled to Pakistan, has returned the money to the authorities.

KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): The first phase of Dahla dam project, the second largest in Afghanistan, has been more than 90 percent completed by a Turkish firm in southern Kandahar province, an official of the construction company said on Sunday.

KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Increasing revenue, constructing and reconstructing roads and strengthening coordination between government and non-governmental organizations are essential parts of the 100-day action plan being implemented in southern Kandahar province, an official said on Tuesday.

KANADAHAR (Pajhwok): A number of fresh engineering graduates of Kandahar University demanded the government to provide them job opportunities at the country’s infrastructure direly needed to be developed.

KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Gunmen killed the attorney for Zheri district of southern Kandahar province in an overnight gun attack in the provincial capital, an official said on Friday, the second prosecutor to be killed within hours.

KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Residents of southern Kandahar province on Wednesday said recent visit by President Ashraf Ghani has raised the hope he would fulfill promises about positive changes in the situation of the province. President Ghani,...